Fraternities Top Academic Scores in 1953 54 Review
Alpha Epsilon Pi leads as a national fraternity in the 1953 54 scholarship awards with a 1.70 average in its first year as a national body. Phi Alpha SPE and AE Pi show high marks while Phi Gamma Delta places fourth with 1.47. Lambda Chi Alpha Pi Kappa Alpha Phi Delta Theta and others fill the ranking as all fraternities exceed the all men’s average.
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Alpha Epsilon Pi
GC. J. Gray
Dean Gray
Aepi
Phi Alpha
SPE
Phi Gam
Upsilon Rho
Lambda Chi Alpha
Pi Kappa Alpha
Phi Delta Theta
Kappa Sigma
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Phi Kappa Sigma
Kappa Alpha
Theta Chi
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Phi Gamma Delta
Display Features Legal Documents of Lincoln and Burr
A law school library display showcases historic documents and portraits of twenty three future presidents. Highlights include Lincoln's contract for a home, a Madison Monroe grant, Jefferson subpoena in Burr’s trial, Jefferson’s will, Jackson’s North Carolina license, Van Buren pardon, Webster partnership, and a Lincoln letter advising study works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Law School
First and Merchants Bank
Keene
Abraham Lincoln
James Madison
James Monroe
Thomas Jefferson
Aaron Burr
Andrew Jackson
North Carolina
Martin van Buren
Noah Webster
Blackstone
Chitty
Greenleaf
United States
American Bar Association
Dear John mail tips from University of Richmond postmaster
University of Richmond postmaster Ralph P. Mayo warns students about mail mishaps. He advises addressing envelopes clearly and securely, attaching and reattaching address cards, and including return addresses inside parcels. He notes delays from illegible addresses and missing stamps and stresses proper wrapping and zone numbers.
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Ralph P. Mayo
University of Richmond
Mayor Sugests
Post Office
Mayo
PiKAs Play Hosts At Annual Dance
The Pi Kappa Alpha chapter at the University of Richmond hosts the All-State PiKa Ball tomorrow at 9 in the Wintergarden of the Richmond Hotel. The Townsmen provide music. a 5 to 7 formal party precedes. Representatives from Washington and Lee William and Mary UVA Hampden Sydney invited. Miss Kay Pettelo to represent UR.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Richmond
Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity
Wintergarden
Richmond
Pikas
Washington and Lee
William and Mary
University of Virginia
Hampden-Sydney
Kay Pettelo
Varied Fare Feasts Westhampton French Banquet
Westhampton students in the French club hosted Le Diner Francais in the Tea Room Monday night. The menu included hors d oeuvre creamed chicken peas salad bread and butter ice cream punch and coffee. Peggy Armstrong and Virginia Dart offered toasts before a program led by Lioletta Rice with Carolyn Quinn Eleanor De Long Betty Wyatt Sheila Lubin Dot Godfrey and Norma Putze. The Chevaliers group performed and the evening ended with Le Marseillaise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westhampton
Peggy Armstrong
Virginia Dart
Lioletta Rice
Carolyn Quinn
Eleanor de Long
Betty Wyatt
Sheila Lubin
Dot Godfrey
Norma Putze
Chevaliers
University of Richmond names two ministers for Emphasis Week
Religious Activities Director J Ralph Shotwell announced the first two members of the 1955 Emphasis Week team. The honorees are Rev Elmer West, secretary for missionary personnel at the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, and Rev Stuart F Grizzard, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Norfolk. West has toured Southern Baptist mission fields in the Orient and studied at Duke University and the University of Chicago after earning a Richmond B S and a Colgate Rochester Divinity School B D. Grizzard, a Virginia native and Richmond alumnus, pastored multiple churches before serving in Norfolk. his wife is Barbara Eckles of Westhampton. Further team members will be announced in coming weeks.
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University of Richmond
J. Ralph Shotwell
Elmer §. West
Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board
Stuart F. Grizzard
First Baptist Church of
Norfolk
Virginia
West West
Southern Baptist
Orient
Palestine
Mays Lick
Kentucky
Cumberland Junior College
Colgate-Rochester Divinity School
Duke University
University of Chicago
Duke
Chicago
Grizzard
Essex County
George Washington University
Kappa Alpha Social Fraternity
Crozer Theological Seminary
Fredericksburg
Orange
Barbara Eckles
Westhampton
Shotwell
Kappa Alpha Rose Ball Set for Saturday Night
The Kappa Alpha Rose Ball will be held Saturday night at the Commonwealth Club. Billed as one of the outstanding social events of the season, the Ball will feature the music of Jimmy Yankovich.
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Commonwealth Club
Jimmy Yankovich
Frat rush yields 138 pledges led by KA and Sig Ep
Richmond rush weekend closes with 138 freshmen and transfers accepting bids. Kappa Alpha led with 20 pledges, Sigma Phi Epsilon with 19, Sigma Alpha Epsilon with 18, and Phi Gamma Delta with 17. A faculty committee supervised rushing and pledges lists names of new members and pledges from Theta Chi, Phi Delta Theta, and Phi Gamma Delta.
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Aveny of Richmond
Kappa Alpha
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Phi Gamma Delta
University
Louis F. Ball
C. J. Gray
W. Fred Caylor, Dr. R. GC. McDanel, Dr. Herman P. Thomas
Reuben E. Alley, Jr
Theta Chi
William L. Andrews
Richmond
Ralph C. Bethel
David JD
Betsch
Flushing
N. Y
Gayle R. Bevins
James D. Carneal
Mechanicsville
Gary K. Garter
Arlington
Arpad G
Czintos
Fort Monroe
David L. Dallas
Nathalie
John
Harvie
Raymond
Hawthorne
Blackstone
John M. Johnson
Portsmouth
P. Robert Vincent
McLean
Phi Delta Theta
James P. Baker
Cartersville
Kenneth A. Blick
Petersburg
Robert C. Butler
Pulaski
John H. Crawford
Walter G. Dickerson
Charlotte
Courthouse
Maurice B. Duling
Samuel 5. Forrest
Matthews
Gary W. Grove
George R. Hutcher
Jesse D. Quisenberry
Robert L. Seward
Samuel H. Taylor
Lebbues H. Beazley
Chester
James A. Black
Richmond debaters win at State TKA tournament
University of Richmond debaters opened the year with a 133 point victory in three rounds at the State TKA meet November 20. The affirmative team featured Ken Hodder and Dick Via with Via named top speaker and Hodder finishing third among speakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Richmond
Ken Hodder
Dick Via
Via
Hodder
Jim Bush
Lynn Owens
Lynchburg
Virginia
University of Virginia
Nancy Day
Buster Ward
Sandy Bassett
John Millar
Don Burker
United States
China
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Lincoln
Burr
By Saul Slatef
West
North Carolina Baptist Hospital
Winston-Salem
Glen Allen Baptist Church
Glen Allen
The
Foreign Mission Board
Kappa Alpha Rose
Sig
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